But rules cannot substitute for character.
ALAN GREENSPANAnd she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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It’s hard to overemphasize how important Ford’s deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first.
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If we were to do that we would increase the supply of skilled workers that our schools have been unable to create and as a consequence of that we would lower the average wage of skills and reduce the degree of income inequality in this country.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I’m running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can’t reduce (the debt) any more
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
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No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
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